August 28, 1915 



HORTICULTURE 



301 



Obituary 



George E. Luffman. 

 George E. Luffman of Glen Iris, 

 Birmingham, Ala., died suddenly on 

 Sunday, August 15, at his home in 

 Birmingham, aged 58 years and 4 

 months. He leaves a widow and three 

 daughters, one of whom. .Mrs. Amy L. 

 Lambly of Spokane, Wash., is a life 

 member of the S. A. P. Mr. Luffman 

 was a landscape gardener and florist, 

 deeply attached to his calling. He was 

 in business in Philadelphia a good 

 many years ago. 



Thomas A. Ivey. 

 Thomas A. Ivey, of Port Dover, Ont., 

 lost his life on the night of August 14 

 in a collision between a taxicab in 

 which he was riding and a locomotive. 

 He was a w idely-known florist through- 

 out Canada, w ith a large area of glass 

 in Port Dover and wholesale and retail 

 branches in Montreal, Hamilton and 

 elsewhere. He leaves a widow, three 

 daughters and four sons, the sons be- 

 ing associated in the business. He 

 was 68 years of age. 



Lawrence W. Kervan. 



Lawrence W. Kervan of the Kervan 

 Company, dealing in evergreens and 

 florists' supplies at 119 West 28th 

 street, New York City, died Tuesday 

 night, August 24, in Roosevelt Hos- 

 pital as the result of an operation tor 

 hernia, performed the previous Thurs- 

 day. 



Mr. Kervan was born in New York 

 City, February 21, 1843, and was a 

 Civil War veteran, having served 

 three years in the Fifth Connecticut 

 Kegiment, After living a number of 

 years in Florida he returned to New- 

 York seventeen years ago and engaged 

 in the selling of evergreens and ferns, 

 building up the large and prosperous 

 concern known as the Kervan Com- 

 pany. 



Mr. Kervan was highly esteemed in 

 the trade for his integrity and 

 straightforwardness and a most lik- 

 able personality won him many warm 

 friends. He is survived by a widow 

 and four sons, three of whom were as- 

 sociated with him in business. 



Funeral services were held at his 

 home. No. 7 West 108th street, on 

 Thursday evening, August 26. Inter- 

 menCwas in Montague, Mass., the buri- 

 al place of Mrs Kervan's family. 



Frank Frank, florist, 1561 3rd Ave- 

 nue, New York, has lost his young 

 daughter, Rita, aged 22 months. 



THE LATE JOHN MACDILL CLARK 

 The death of John Macdill Clark, 

 secretary of the Leonard Seed Com 

 pany of Chicago, was briefly an- 

 nounced in our issue of last week. Mr 

 Macdill had been unwell for about 

 three weeks. Becoming worse, he was 

 operated upon at the West Suburban 

 Hospital three days before his death, 

 when it was discovered that he was 

 Buffering from ulceration of the stom- 

 ach and recovery was impossible. 



Mr. Clark was born in Kirkcud- 

 bright, Scotland, May 8, 1860. He 

 came to this country with his iiarents 

 at the age ot 7 years and received his 

 education in the public schools of New 



York. He first worked for a clothing 

 firm, but soon left this position for one 

 witli the seed house of A. D. Cowan, 

 New York. After this he worked 

 successively for the Robert Buist Co., 

 of Philadelphia, and Vaughan's Seed 

 Store, Chicago, until .January 1, 1885, 

 when he cast his lot with S. F. Leonard, 

 and when the Leonard Seed Co. was 

 incorporated in 1891 he was chosen 

 secretary. 



For many years Mr. Clark had been 

 prominent in the seed trade as an ex- 

 pert in types, bringing a practical 

 knowledge and experience to bear on 

 the subject that gained for him a high 

 place in the esteem and confidence of 

 seed trade and agricultural circles. 

 He was a member of the farmers' in- 

 stitute of the eighth congressional dis- 

 trict, and for several years had been 

 one of its directors. His business as- 

 sociates pay him the respect of slating 

 that to ills even temper, untiring ef- 

 forts and close attention to detail, to- 

 gether with his efficient co-operation 

 with the rest of the organization, is 

 due to no small extent the unfaltering 

 advance of the house. In his more 

 than thirty years' connection with the 

 company there has never been a 

 moment of friction. His associates 

 will not try to fill his place; they will 

 merely learn to do without him. 



NEWS NOTES. 



Shelburne Falls, Mass.^P. R. Burtt, 

 who recently bought the original Fife 

 greenhouses, is renovating them with 

 a view to opening up the florist busi- 

 ness again there. 



Beverly Farms, Mass. — Frank E. 

 Cole is running the once famed Spaul- 

 ding gardens as a commercial enter- 

 prise, under the name of North Shore 

 Nurseries and Florist Company, and is 

 very successful with it. 



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